On Chiloe Island, H and I had a project of photographing as many different shingle types as possible. We stopped outside one house in a tiny village to photograph the following shingle that we hadn't seen before. I jumped out of the car to get the photo and was startled by a man sitting on the front step.
He explained that he was the man from next door and that I should get a photo of his house. He led me to his house, this is it, with him now sitting on its front step. I think it only fair that I publish it, since he was so determined to have me take the photo. He also wanted a chat, about politics, but I couldn't stay for the smell!
Fortunately most houses on Chiloe are in better condition than this, but, when I had seen them like this I had assumed they were abandoned, and this proves I was sometimes wrong.
Also, I must mention that houses in southern Chile, when not shingled timber constructions were most often made with corrugated iron. Sometimes they looked very nice.
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